Dear Sophie -
Even in an institution as progressive as the Bauhaus, women were barred from certain disciplines such as architecture (pause for shock!), so ANNI ALBERS reluctantly turned to weaving. With the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933, she and her husband JOSEF ALBERS (a famed painter and colorist) moved to the United States, first to Black Mountain College in North Carolina which was an intellectual center, and then on to Yale. In time she became one of the foremost textile designers of the 20th century.
With love,
Mom